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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

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There are a growing number of BaaS companies, which all essentially have the same end goal — to make it faster and easier for fintechs and other companies to launch financial services and products. . We’ve been building our basic infrastructure and compliance and technology,” Vo told TechCrunch.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

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Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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The fintech layoffs just keep on coming

TechCrunch

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world.

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Laika laps up $50M for its automated security compliance platform

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Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your business relationship.

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Stripe has laid off employees behind TaxJar, a tax compliance startup it acquired last year

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Stripe has laid off some of the employees who support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. Global fintech funding in the second quarter of 2022 fell 33% to $20.4 Six conversations that bring nuance to tech’s layoff wave.

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Method raises $16M to power loan repayment, balance transfers and more across fintech apps

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Integrating student loans into the GradJoy app turned out to be a patchwork of brittle, insecure screen-scraping APIs, physical check mailing and compliance hurdles, according to Shah. “We provide fintechs the ability to innovate faster and compete with larger banks with our turnkey real time data and payment operations.

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